diff -Naurd Gtk2-Html2-0.03.orig/examples/mupzilla Gtk2-Html2-0.03/examples/mupzilla
--- Gtk2-Html2-0.03.orig/examples/mupzilla	2004-04-03 07:03:43.000000000 +0200
+++ Gtk2-Html2-0.03/examples/mupzilla	2004-09-01 14:41:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 use Gtk2;
 use Gtk2::Html2;
 use Gnome2::VFS;
+use Encode;
 
 my $gnomevfsinitialized = FALSE;
 
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@
 	$address->signal_connect (activate => sub {
 		my ($entry, $mupzilla) = @_;
 		my $uri = $entry->get_text;
-		if ($uri !~ m{^https?://}) {
+		if ($uri !~ m{^(https?|file)://}) {
 			$uri = "http://".$uri;
 			$entry->set_text ($uri);
 		}
@@ -100,6 +101,7 @@
 	my ($self, $uri) = @_;
 	# mangle it to be a full url.  FIXME this is terrible.
 	warn "mangle_uri -- '$uri'\n";
+	return $uri if ($uri =~ m{://});
 	if ($self->{base_uri}) {
 		warn "  base_uri -- '".$self->{base_uri}->get_scheme."'\n";
 		warn "           -- '".$self->{base_uri}->get_host_name."'\n";
@@ -176,7 +178,8 @@
 				Gnome2::VFS::URI->new ($uri);
 		},
 		read_chunk => sub {
-			 $self->{doc}->write_stream ($_[0])
+			Encode::_utf8_on($_[0]);
+			$self->{doc}->write_stream ($_[0])
 			 	if length $_[0];
 			 Gtk2->main_iteration
 			 	while Gtk2->events_pending;